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Low-cost radar with high-resolution imaging

  • US 6,429,805 B1
  • Filed: 04/18/2001
  • Issued: 08/06/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/18/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A radar comprising:

  • a plurality of reception antennas corresponding to a plurality of homodyne reception channels;

    a transmission antenna positioned with respect to the plurality of reception antennas such that a distance between the transmission antenna and each consecutive reception antenna of the plurality of reception antenna respectively increases from one reception antenna to the next; and

    means for beam-formation by computation associated with the plurality of reception channels and for receiving a reception signal from each of the homodyne reception channels, wherein a spacing between each reception antenna is set so as to orient a homodyne leakage in a direction located in an angular zone of space not processed by the radar.

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